Monthly Archives: January 2011

NSFW, depending on where you work

151 Park Ave (Greenwich) This is a beautiful 1900 house that I admired in 2008, when it came on asking $3.355. I didn’t like that price, nor did any buyer, but it just sold for $2.4 million, which is more … Continue reading →

A Californian politician wants a boycott of all advertisers on the Rush Limbaugh show because Limbaugh insulted the Chinese dictator and hence, “all Chinese Americans”. California state Sen. Leland Yee, a Democrat from San Francisco, is leading a fight in demanding an … Continue reading →

 An anonymous reader sent along this link. Well worth reading.

Last year, our best”undisputed global warming experts” said they’d be entirely melted in twenty-five years. The new study by scientists at the Universities of California and Potsdam has found that half of the glaciers in the Karakoram range, in the … Continue reading →

The man did most of his disposal work in the basement, but one couple (Morticia and Gomez Adams?) wasn’t turned off. Full disclosure was made, and many buyers were, not surprisingly, turned off but at the right price ….

UConn football players weren’t impressed with Greenwich donor Robert Burton. Insecure rich people bore me.

It may be worth sticking round this hell hole to keep Al Qaeda out, but as for protecting these savage people? Not worth one of our soldiers’ lives. We are never going to bring these primitives to our concept of … Continue reading →

Illinois Supreme’s restore Emanuel to the ballot in Chicago. In fact, I thought, reading the two applicable laws, that Emanuel had the better side of the argument, but I never believed that Chicago would let a front runner be bounced, regardless … Continue reading →

I’m watching a deal that will collapse tomorrow over a $100,000 difference of opinion. I always respect clients’ ceilings, and if they can’t afford something, they can’t – end of the matter, no hard feelings, and let’s move on to … Continue reading →

So no sales or contracts to report. Tomorrow, maybe. Greenwich Time has a teaser ad on its web page promising an article in the Sunday edition asking whether our market has recovered. I’ll save you the wait, and the cost … Continue reading →

Conservatives boycotting meeting of like-minded people. Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee and all sorts of Christian family type groups won’t go because (a) the meeting is co-sponsored by a gay conservative group and (b), in the words of Mr. Huckabee, “they’re too … Continue reading →

First, someone changed my password to lock me out of my email. Now, I just went to Gmail’s paid advisory panel and tried to pay $48 for an answer as to how to get around the lock-out and turns out … Continue reading →

Greenwich suing the family of our two Perrot librarians for recovery of worksmen’s comp payments. That is how the law works, unfortunately but in case like this, where there seems to have only modest amount of assets to satisfy two wrongful deaths, it’s … Continue reading →

How about no garage? No paved driveways? Tiny houses? No terraces?It’s all their for your pleasure.

No real snow yet, but can it be far behind? UPDATE, 8:15 – Just back from outdoors; the reason I couldn’t see snow out the window is because it’s sleeting, heavily. Oh. goodie. A good night to stay home. I … Continue reading →

Lawsuits, lawyers shut down Jersey’s best sledding hills.

Between clients cancelling, snow days keeping kids at home and just the sheer inconvenience of it all, we’re not seeing much activity.